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Popular Government Stands the Test
Few congressional sessions in American history have
seen more important work accomplished than the special
session of the past spring. And few have done more to
enhance Congress’ reputation.
The Congress that convened in extraordinary session
last March came to Washington at a moment when rep
resentative government in the country was more unpop
ular, probably, than at any time since the adoption of the
constitution.
People were afraid, people were angry, people were
distrustful. They knew that the country needed swift and
drastic action, and they did not believe that Congress
was capable of furnishing it. If the president had refused
to call a special session and had ruthlessly seized the leg
isslative function for himself it is probable that many
Americans would have applauded.
The president, of course, had no intention of doing
any such thing. Congress convened, listened to what he
had to say—and then proceeded to demonstrate that
America’s representative government can function just
about as efficiently and intelligently as the severest critic
could ask.
To be sure, Congress made mistakes. It kicked over
the traces now and then; it indulged in a last-round flare
up over cuts in veterans’ compensation. But in the main
it played ball. It gave the president just about what he
asked for, and it gave it to him fast.
And this, perhaps, is as encouraging a thing as has
happened all spring.
Our whole system of representative government was
on trial when this congress convened. People were impa
tient of delay, protracted talk, of pettyt politics. If Con
gress had failed, a profound shift in our democratic form
of government would have been almost inevitable.
Congress came through; and it came through, not be
cause its members were finer, more patriotic men than
the members of preceding congresses, but because the
right kind of leadership was forthcoming from the White
House. It proved that the legislative branch of a democrat
ic government can work efficiently and speedily if the
executive branch knows how to demand it. It justified our
traditional faith in our representative democracy.
Turn on the Light
O. P. Van Sweringen’s complaint to Ferdinand Pe
cora, counsel for the Morgan investigating committee, that
“these investigations are terrifically destructive,” is a
somew’hat belated revival of the kind of cry that finan
cial and industrial titans used to admit every time the
government tried to find out what was going on behind
the scenes. ,
It was raised repeatedly during the Teapot Dome
probe. It was raised when the senate tried to get a pic
ture of Insull’s political expenditures in Illinois. It seems
to represent a blind feeling that no abuse can possibly
be as bad if it is kept secret as the effect of its revela
tion will be on the pubic mind. /
The depression has helped us get past that notion;
we have stopped thinking that the worst thing we can
do is displease the very wealthy. And the country’s re
sponse to Mr. Van Sweringen’s complaint will probably
be an undignified and derisive, ‘‘Oh yeah?”
The
Once Ocer
■r u. l rDLun
THE NEW AMERICA
Are you bothered by a debt?
Repudiate it!
Can’t you pay an ancient bet?
Is your credit badly bent?
Do you owe a lot of rent?
Repudiate it!
n.
Do you owe a bill for milk?
Repudiate it!
Do you owe for dresses silk?
Repudiate it!
When a fellow says he’ll sue
For a little I. O. U.
Don’t you know the thing to do?
Repudiate it!
Iin
Are your poker losses high?
Why not cancel?
Do you owe for cake ana pie?
Why not cancel?
Do you owe for light and heat,
Fish and eggs and bread and meat
And a let of things to eat?
Why not cancel?
IV
Is your doctor’s bill unpaid?
Just forget it!
Do you owe the nurse ana maid?
Just forget it!
Do you owe Old Doctor Kraut
For those tonsils he took out
Or his treatment for the gout?
Just forget it!
V
Did you contract for a loan?
Do not worry!
Are you dunned by telephone?
What’s the hurry?
In the years now far away
Did you sign a note to pay
In the money of that day?
Scurry! Scurry!
VI
Does an old time debt annoy?
Change the contract!
Do the stipulations cloy?
Change the contract!
Is it quite a burden now
Causing furrows on your brow;
Would you dodge it all? Here's how
Change the contract!
Sunk
(Army and Navy Club, Bankrupt,
Goes to Irving Tru.%:.”—headline)
Ashes to ashes
And dust to dust—
Anchors aweigh for
The Irving Trust!
June, as the bull operator says,
is the month of rises.
Heroism
(“The stock was distributed to
those on the so called preferred
list in order that Morgan & Com
pany could distribute the risk, it
was testified.”—News item)
A life of service is my atm
(Professor, play the organ!)
So shower me with stocks and I
Will share the risk with Morgan!
Miss Louise M. Popp, a New York
tele.Vtone girl, won $119,000 in the
Derby Sweepstakes. The question
as to what a hello girl should no
after she has received $119,000 thus
becomes a topic of the «ny, out; if
we were in her place wea spend
one final day giving peevish sub
scribers wrong numbers ana
screaming “Phooey!” to the threats
to write the president.
I_Quotations_J
No war was ever started by any
War Department. It was always
started by persons or interests out
side. Instead of War Department,
it should be called Peace Depart
ment, as its mission is to maintain
peace.
—Sec. of War George H. Dern.
* • *
Year after year, the Pacific coast
cities show higher suicide rates (as
compared to other sections of the
country), as to which not satisfac
tory explanation has yet been forth
coming.
—Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, life in
surance statistician.
• • •
The medical investigator today
takes all of animated nature as his
legitimate field of exploration. There
are no closed compartments in na
ture into which man, animals and
plants can be separately placed. All
are related organically and, as we
may say, united physiciologically
and pathologically.
—Dr. Simon Flexner, director of
Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research.
• • ■
Vibrations of fine music put my
sterious initiative, resolution and
courage into the normal individual.
—Treasury Sec. Woodin, who is al
so a composer.
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New York
_Letter_
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEW YORK.— Nicolai Sokoloff,
the conductor, believes that people
will go to considerable lengths,
literally, to hear good music. So
he’s soon to start a series of eight
een summer concerts, with a com
plete symphony orchestra and va
rious guest soloists, which will be
held in his own back yard, some
60 miles from New York.
He lives in Fairfield County,
Connecticut, and in a house tnar.
was built in 1789. Behind it is a
broad expanse of lawn, curving
and rising into a natural amphi
theater. Sokoloff tried tlj£ ac
coustics and found them gooa. He
named the spot Musicl Hill, went
about discussing his concert idea
with the artists and writers and
musicians who populate the region,
found them receptive.
He also consulted the few re
maining natives, people of old
families which have been scratcn
lng a living from the rocky soil
since Colonial days. Most of them
thought as did Old Man Andrews,
an octogenarian who, incidentally,
still does his haying with a team
of oxen and a two-wheeled cart.
Andrews figured the music would
not bother him much; he always
goes to oed with the chickens any
way, and is a powerful sound
sleeper.
Entered U. S. at 13
The conductor himself knows
more of such independent enter
prises than any other musician.
Sokoloff had nothing but a violin
when he came to this country from
Russia at the age of 13. Az 14 he
had won a scholarship in the Yale
School of Music; at 17 he was
umong the Boston Symphony’s
first violins. He was leading the
San Francisco Philharmonic when
the World War came, men ne
went to France. In 1918 he be
gan to build up, from nothing, tne
Cleveland Orchestra, and remained
its conductor for 15 years, dur
ing which time he has appeared
or tours or as a guest leader in
158 cities.
He now is conductor of the New
York Orchestra, made up of high
ranking musicians who, unemploy
ed, banded together and invited
Sakoloff to be their boss. These
are the men who, together with
soloists such as Marion Telva,
Mario Chamlee, Ruth Breton ana
Jacques Gordon, will play for all
who’ll come and sit in Sokol off's
back yard.
• • ‘
Foibles of the Famed
Meanderings: Marie DrosJer
once sold peanuts at Coney Island
rather than surrender in a dispute
over a contract... .Earl Carroll, the
music comedy producer, is always
jotting figures on tablecloths. The
other night at the Embassy lie
added a column that totaled more
than a million dollars; so he must
be planning another show...What
ever their accomplishments along
some lines, most celebrities nave
some secret yens that uever have
been realized. Thus. Edna Ferber
always has dreamed cf being a
great prima donna. Another writing
woman, Faith Baldwin, confesses
she always wanted to be a ara
matic actress. And even John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., you’d think
could have whatever ne chose, ad
mits he’d give anything—well, al
most anything—to be an accom
plished pianist.
_Barbs _
Goldfish, says a scientist at Chi
cago’s Shedd Aquarium, “are just
as happy when being fed by a
stranger as when being fed by
their owner.” Any fisherman can
testify, however, that a lot of other
fish seem to object to being fed
by his hook.
• • •
Seeking to preserve their testi
mony, a German Nazi court is hav
ing four accused slayers talk into
a phonograph. That should make
the evidence a matter of record.
• • •
Wisconsin state senate met at
suprise the other morning, which
will surprise many persons who
have always thought that state
legislators worked in the dark,
* • •
Poet Edwin Markham, who wrote
“The Man With the Hoe,” has sued
in Chicago to collect a promised
annuity, explaining that he needs
the money. Sounds like Mr. Mark
ham is now “The Man With the
Owe.”
Movie Sidelights
CAPITOL
Garbed in outlandish wigs,
plumed hats and costumes of the
Robin Hood era, Laurel and Hardy
make their latest appearance in
‘The Devil’s Brother,” a full
length production in which the
comedians are seen as a pair of
daring brigands.
In their current picture showing
Friday and Saturday at the Capitol
Theatre, they run the gamut of
tomfoolery.
There is considerably more to
“The Devil’s Brother” than humor,
although of course the antics of
its two clowns plays an outstand
ing part in the production. For
one thing there is the presence m
the cast of Dennis King, hero of
innumerable New York show hits,
whose portrayal of the bandit
king, Diavolo, does not prevent
him from singing several songs of
definite asset to the picture. Then
there is also Thelma Todd as the
flirtatious Lady Pamela for whose
charms Laurel and Hardy fall all
over themselves.
QUEEN
Today’s offering at the Queen
Theatre is “Pick Up,” a picture
taken from Vina Delmar’s story
of the same name, and starring
Sylvia Sidney and George Raft.
“Pick Up,” as played by Sylvia
Sidney and George Raft, is in the
same human, tender vein as “Bad
Girl”
The girl in “Pick Up” as por
trayed in Sylvia Sidney's superb
performance is a warm, living
character whose story captures in
terest and holds it throughout.
George Raft is an excellent co
star. As the crude, groping taxi
driver who knows what he wants
in women, but can’t find room in
his heart for a “pick up” girl,
| Raft gives a masterful character
ization.
Daily Health
Talk
After over-exposure to sunlight as
a hazard in summer, the next most
important source of trouble is food
and water.
In the first place, one should be
careful not to eat too much in sum
mer. Fruits and vegetables are the
most valuable bases for the sum
mer diet However, no one-sided diet
is safe. Every diet suitable for
health and growth must contain
protein, carbohydrate and fat, min
eral salts and vitamins in suitable
proportions.
Milk and milk products should
form the basic substance in diets
particularly for children in sum
mer, as well as in winter. However,
it is much more difficult to keep
milk satisfactorily in summer, *nri
parents must made sure that refrig
eration is adequate, that the milk
is properly pasteurized and clean
when it comes to the home.
a
Cereals are likely to be less In de
mand in the summer, as are also
carbohydrates in general. Many per
sons attempt to avoid hot foods dur
ing the summer. However, the eat
ing of cold meals regularly soon cloys
the appetite, and the cold plate of
meats and vegetables should be con
sidered a summer delicacy rather
than a routine item.
It is particularly important to
make certain of the sources of food
supplies while traveling or in camps.
Every bit of food and drink dispens
ed in any camp or sold to travelers
should have passed a proper food in
spection. it Is safer for the travel
er to depend on well packaged foixls
than to take chances on uncontrol
led food purchased along the road.
Inasmuch as germs thrive in warm
weather, it is important to watch
the water supply. Water taken from
streams should not be used for
drinking without boiling.
• • •
Extra precautions should also be
taken with milk whenever it is pur
chased in bulk Instead of from a
dairy company which maintains
suitable pasteurization and control
of bottling.
THE SAILOR’S VACATION
Hie amount of water taken Into
the body In hot weather should be
Increased because more water is
evaporated from the surface of the
body and used up In the body’s
metabolism than In colder weather.
Because of the tendency to elimin
ate water in order to maintain the
body's temperature there is a te -
dency to small, hard actions of the
bowels. The taking of extra water
will help to relieve this condition.
BEGIN HERE TODAY
BARRETT COLVIN. 35, ntani
to New York after four years' ab
sence. Ho la rich and has mads
a name for himself as aa arche
ologist. The first to greet him la
his half-sister, HARCIA RADNOR.
younger, selfish and spelled. MAR
CIA Is happily married now.
Years before Barrett shielded her
when a youthful flirtation ended
dlaastTonsly. Marcia had a son
whom Barrett adopted. She Is
worried because the boy's tutor
has threatened her with blackmail
and declares her husband will
never forgive her If he learns the
* truth. Barrett agrees to deal with
the tutor. HAROLD DEXTER.
As Marcia Is leaving she sees
ELINOR STAFFORD across tho
street and offers to drive her
home. Elinor. 20 and very pretty,
has been calling on her wealthy
aont, MISS ELLA SEXTON. Bar
rett had known the girl aa a child
and Is amased to seo how beantl
fnl she has become.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER II
PJARRETT COLVIN turned’impa
tiently to his desk. It was ri
diculous SC him to keep thinking
of the girt. In an effort to put her
out of his mind he opened and
scanned a letter or two.
A few years ago he had thought
that If the small group who under
stood his work felt It was good his
ambition would be reached. Now
here he was—reading all these
words of praise and Instead of
feeling pleased he was wondering
what It would be like to take a
girl of Elinor Stafford’s sort to
dinner or the theater.
He poked bills Into pigeon holes,
decided to get rid of Dexter
promptly and as soon as he could
to make a trip to the Connecticut
farm house where his ward lived.
Probably, Barrett reflected, he
would bore such a girl as Elinor
Stafford. He had always despised
middle-aged men who devoted
themselves to young girls. Why
the dev” was he giving the matter
30 muc^ ti ught, anyhow? There
wasn’t a ince in a hundred of
his takinb *nis particular girl any
where. Of course he might happen
to meet her at Miss Ella’s—
He pushed aside the letter he
was reading, disgusted with him
self. He wrote his age, 35, on the
desk blotter. Elinor Stafford was
19 or 20 be Judged. Of course she
would marry some youngster, some
youth In her own set. She would
have a home, children, all that she
should have. Lord but the house
seemed quiet!
She bad such gentle eyea She
would be very sweet with children.
Barrett rose suddenly, wishing
he were back In the desert, wran
gling with some native who would
not have sacred ground disturbed
—for the price offered. Dreaming
of a bathtub and brushing the
sands of time from the shin bone
of a dinosaur. But be wasn’t In
the desert and, until things cleared
up—the question of Gerald’s future
settled and Marcia’s baby born—
he would not go on any expedi
tion, no matter how tempting.
Again Barrett Colvin settled at
his desk. Then he drew back
sharply. Beneath the figure “35’’
he had written “19 or 20."
• • •
\fAJtCIA, meantime, turned to
1 look at Elinor Stafford. “8be
At the head of the third floor stair Elinor tapped upon a worn
door.
has young beauty," Marcia thought.
“Real beauty muted by the wrong
sort of clothes.” A girl with
Elinor’s coloring and her chestnut
brown hair should not, of course,
wear gray tweeds. With her youth
ful slimness and slightly angular
lines she needed softness. Perhaps,
Marcia reflected with that keenness
women have in measuring one an
other, It was Elinor’s mother who
was responsible for the girl’s ill
chosen costume. That would be
exactly like Lida Stafford. Yes,
indeed!
"You were calling on your aunt?”
Marcia Questioned. She was only
making conversation. Mentally
Marcia was telling herself that she
must bring Barry to her point of
view about the boy.
“Yes,” Elinor answered In her
usually shy way.
“I hope she is as well as usual?”
Marcia went on. Of course she
knew Miss Sexton’s relatives could
not really be wishing any such
thing. How they had hovered, like
human vultures, around the auto
cratic and acid old lady who made
the changing of her will a favorite
indoor sport!
"She’s quite well, thank you, Mrs.
Radnor. She saw you drive up and
spoke of how well you were look
ing."
Marcia’s expression became
slightly strained. She had always
suspected that Miss Ella Saxton
knew more than anyone else about
the secrets of Marcia’s past. Miss
Ella had piercing eyes and a sus
picious, inquisitive turn of mind.
How Marcia had flushed 10 years
before when Miss Ella bad beck
oned her across the way from the
old house to say, “1 saw yon riding
in the park—”
Those bridle paths and • Lon
Moore riding behind her—when
people were near. She had been
a little fool but so hungry for ro
mance. There had been little of
it in the great house ruled by her
stern father.
• • •
A ND now, why had young Dexter,
the boy’s companion-tutor,
come to her? But Barry would fix
that Barry always did fix things.
Half of his acquaintances must owe
him money! Oh, of course Barry
must come around to her point of
view. Getting the child away, far
away, was the only wise thing to
do. Somewhere in South America,
perhaps. Completely away from
everyone they knew.
“Has there been much going on
for you young people?” Marcia
asked, suddenly remembering the
girl beside her.
"I don’t know, Mrs. Radnor. I
haven’t—many friends."
“Why, that’s not right! You’re
really, Elinor, quite sweet.”
The gratitude that flashed In
Elinor Stafford’s eyes took Marcia
for a second beyond her troubled
self. She laid a hand upon the
girl’s.
“Child " she said quickly. “I’m
going to be house-bound soon and
perhaps you’ll be good enough to
come to see me once in a while.”
Again Elinor’s eyes raised. The
girl was obviously pitiably lonely.
Marcia continued, “We’ll find some
thing amusing to do—"
“I’d love It, Mrs. Radnor!"
Elinor answered with young in
tensity.
“Well then, that’s that You live
on Park Avenue, don’t you*”
“Yes. but—* Elinor faltered. “I
was on my way down town. Would
you mind dropping me somewhere
near Washington Square it It’s not
out of your way?”
“Not at all!" Marcia answered.
"Are you going in for artists, my
dear? Personally I think they're
rather over-done.”
The girl did not answer for a
moment and when Marcia turned
she saw that Elinor was flushed.
Marcia laughed delightfully. “You
sly child!" she broke out. “I think
you’re having an affair!”
“Oh, no, really!”
.Marcia thought, amused, “Heaw
ens, how embarrassed she is!”
“Mrs. Radnor” Elinor added
quickly, “I would rather not have
anyone know that you dropped me
down town.”
“No one shall know. I’m absui^k
ly kind about keeping secrets?'
Marcia assured her.
“I knew you would be!” the girl
said with a grateful look.
i% TARCIA flushed a trifle, but only
^ a trifle. The flush showed with
but a hint of warmth beneath her
gardenia skin. Secrets and keep
ing them—how she loathed the
thought! How Dick loathed them.
He would never forgive her, never!
But she mustn’t let herself brood
over such things. The doctor had
said, "Keep cheerful.” An easy
order! As If one could do it—at
will! Marcia was impatient with
the whole world, doctors included.
"Did you know I’m going to have
a baby?" she asked.
"No, I didn’t,” Elinor answered.
“You must be very, very happy!"
“You are a dear!” said Marcia
warmly. "Yes, I am. But most of
my friends don’t feel that way.
They say, ‘Poor darling!’ as though
it were something calling for sym
pathy. That’s the usual reaction.”
“I think it’s a most unpleasant
reaction.”
“YeB, Isn’t it?” Marcia drawled
easily, carelessly. There was s
silence.
“I think I’ll leave at the next cor
ner, please, and I thank you so
much, Mrs. Radnor—and for ask
ing me to come to see you, too—*
“Darling, I’ll love to have you,"
Marcia responded. Speaking Into
the tube she told Jensen to stop
the car.
After Elinor had disappeared in
the crowd and the car was moving
on again Marcia wondered about
the girl and why she wanted her
trip down town kept a secret
Marcia rather hoped the youngster
wasn’t concerned in anything dis
agreeable. Elinor was so yonng.
So much could come to one who
was so young, so much one was not
ready for yet for which one was
eager! Marcia closed her eyes for
a little Jime. She drew a deep
breath. If Dick ever knew, he
would never forgive her—Dick who
was a fanatic about the truth.
Elinor turned into a side street
that had once been an alley. The
moist, chill of the day had touched
it Grays were deeper, cobbles
slimy, puddles were raw stretches
on which were printed the untidy
habits of those who passed—a bit
I of orange peeling floating here.
' there an envelope or scraps of a
torn letter.
The building Into which she
turned was old and marked by the
hard years It had known. Stairs
tilted forward, their edges splint
ered. A woman pushed aside a
bucket without raising her head as
Elinor went by her. Elinor’s
“Thank you” made her look up
with dull and wondering surprise
At the head of the third floor
stair Elinor tapped upon a worn
door. “It’s I, Philip,” she said.
(To Be Contiaaed)